10 reasons offshore drilling is such a dumb idea
10. Offshore oil drilling won't impact gas prices today, and it won't have a significant impact on gas prices in the future.
9. This is nothing more than a money grab by the oil companies - who are already making record-breaking profits.
8. We burn 25% of the world's oil here in the U.S., but we have only 3% of the world's oil reserves. So even if all offshore oil magically came to market today, the vast majority of our oil would continue to be imported, and we wouldn't see price relief at the pump.
7. The current moratorium was put in place decades ago to protect us from the danger of oil spills along our coastlines and beaches.
6. Burning fossil fuels like oil causes global warming, which causes stronger hurricanes, which will threaten the very offshore drilling rigs being proposed, which will contribute to even more global warming.
5. To avoid the worst impacts of global warming, we need to switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy within the next 10 years. The billions of dollars that would be spent on offshore oil drilling just postpones the inevitable transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
4. Oil exploration requires massive seismic testing - which threatens whales and dolphins.
3. Oil prices are set on the global oil market, so American oil is no cheaper than Saudi oil. We won't get a discount for oil drilled in the U.S.
2. We can't solve the world's energy problems with the same drilling that created them.
1. Renewable energy is available now, so it's time to walk away from fossil fuels and toward a clean energy future.
Source: Greenpeace.org
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9. This is nothing more than a money grab by the oil companies - who are already making record-breaking profits.
8. We burn 25% of the world's oil here in the U.S., but we have only 3% of the world's oil reserves. So even if all offshore oil magically came to market today, the vast majority of our oil would continue to be imported, and we wouldn't see price relief at the pump.
7. The current moratorium was put in place decades ago to protect us from the danger of oil spills along our coastlines and beaches.
6. Burning fossil fuels like oil causes global warming, which causes stronger hurricanes, which will threaten the very offshore drilling rigs being proposed, which will contribute to even more global warming.
5. To avoid the worst impacts of global warming, we need to switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy within the next 10 years. The billions of dollars that would be spent on offshore oil drilling just postpones the inevitable transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
4. Oil exploration requires massive seismic testing - which threatens whales and dolphins.
3. Oil prices are set on the global oil market, so American oil is no cheaper than Saudi oil. We won't get a discount for oil drilled in the U.S.
2. We can't solve the world's energy problems with the same drilling that created them.
1. Renewable energy is available now, so it's time to walk away from fossil fuels and toward a clean energy future.
Source: Greenpeace.org
Please keep on the good discussion.. Thanks Henrik
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Permalink Reply by Kenneth Koch on -
Where is this afforadable renewable transportation fuel?
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Permalink Reply by Kenneth Koch on
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What do you do when the charge in the battery is depleted and you need to travel further? What if the battery cost is 10 thousand dollars? what if you want to charge at night? What if you have no place to put PVs?
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Permalink Reply by Kenneth Koch on
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I estimate that the Chevy Volt battery will weigh at least 150 pounds and it will get you 40 miles. Stop and swap it out every 40 minutes?
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Permalink Reply by SJC on -
After 40 miles the 1.4l engine starts and drives the huge alternator to charge the batteries. It is called a range extender and in the future it might be a fuel cell instead of an internal combustion engine.
The idea is that the engine can run at a continuous consistent load right in the middle of the most efficient range of operation. That brings the efficiency closer to the maximum for that engine. The wide range of operation in a regular car causes the engine to not be in that range most of the time and thus lower fuel economy.
The engine might run for 10 minutes running the motor and charging the batteries and then turn off and run on batteries until a lower state of charge tells it to turn on again.
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Permalink Reply by Kenneth Guntkowski on -
LOL
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Permalink Reply by Brandon on -
This is wrong on so many points and since these points have already been covered I am not going to waste my time.
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Permalink Reply by Joe Lalumia on -
Every one of your 10 reasons is invalid-- they are all just political & Global Warming advocate BS !
We will need OIL for a very long time not just for fuel but to make almost everything we use today. That computer you are using right now was made from OIL-- it is contained in everything from cosmetics, to medicine.
Sorry but the vast majority of Americans actually understand that we can INCREASE our supply of oil BY DRILLING WHERE THE OIL IS. What a novel idea-- you know the oil industry is the only business I can think of that requires an "ACT of God" to even start doing any business.
A Comprehensive Energy Plan includes DRILLING for oil and natural gas, wind, solar, nuclear, hydro, geothermal, hydrogen--- we need to be doing ALL of these at the same time. Pickens Plan is a good first step.
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Permalink Reply by Eric Straatsma MS on -
Part of the answer to this whole oil supply problem is to make all states energy deregulated as Texas and New York are. Give people a choice of switching to green energy through their energy provider. Deregulation leads to choices, incentives and lower prices, as these two states show, and the website illustrates specifically, with real world prices you can check on from many providers.
In regulated states, there is no choice and utilities have a monopoly hold on everything. They will not change. They have a strangle hold on everyone and will not let them go.. Consumers are powerless and helpless for the most part.
By contrast, if customers have a choice, as they do for long distance service, then they can switch FAST, and easily to a green energy company that supplies all of their power from wind for example.
Consumer demand will drive the green market, rather than utilities freezing everyone out of choice and forcing everyone into extinction due to burning carbon based fuels and 10,000 years of buildup of toxic radioactive fuels.
For more information on this see www.energy526site.com
Quick electric rate comparison website for deregulated Texas and New York and green power sign up, if you want it today. www.electricityratescompared.info
At the sites above, you can see much more in depth information, compare rates if you live in Texas or New York and sign up for green power if you live in those states.. Also, find out how to actually make this green energy thing HAPPEN, TODAY.
We cannot wait another thirty years for the government or anyone else to save us. We have the power NOW to change things TODAY.
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Permalink Reply by Todd McKissick on -
Michael,
True deregulation has never occurred yet. The half vast attempts only took the good parts out of regulation. If you want genuine deregulation, where each customer gets a fair chance to compete on equal footing with their local utility, you need the smart grid. Until that happens, utility companies will always be able to exploit the differences between purchase time and billing time and the grid won't benefit from any storage facilities, whether large or small scale. The load changes based on real time demand are going to be required before we can ever move away from our current monopolistic system. Check out my 'smart grid' blog post for a better explanation.
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Permalink Reply by Debra Goldenberg on -
I've put this up before, but in case you haven't seen it, here Stephen Colbert does a quite humorous, but informational take (with a good analysis by a blogger). It's called "Formidable Opponent - Offshore Drilling"
http://www.maxgladwell.com/2008/08/stephen-colberts-formidable-oppo...
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